//------------------------------// // 31 - Core Issues // Story: Underworld Frisk // by Darkonshadows //------------------------------// Pinkie was having a good time dancing with Miss Muffet, the spider knew how to dance and nobody ever bothered to question the explosion or all the crazy things they did leading up to the last dance before they decided to head to their rooms. “Like, thanks for a wonderful night Pinkie.” Bratty was happy to get a room in such a swanky place and for free no less, she walked off with a happy sway in her tail. “Yeah like, this night was hopping for us Pinkie!” Catty mewled happily following after her best friend’s tail; she even started batting at it like a cat would and got Bratty a little upset with her. “I guess this hasn’t been so bad…” Burger seemed a little less grumpy since he joined either Catty or Bratty in a dance. He seemed to be a little bit happier and at peace with himself. “I also get to finally see what the accommodations are like, the reservations must have been hard to get.” “Come along darling, I’m tired and we should really adjourn to our rooms.” Muffet seemed to be happy just to be in Pinkie’s presence much less get in a few dances with the pony. “Can I ask you something first before we do?” As Pinkie said this they walked out into the lobby area and saw a few monster gathered around the elevator leading straight to New Home. “The elevators are down honey, I’ll be home later tonight… maybe you can heat up some pizza from my treasure horde’s refrigerator?” The dragon monster on the phone looked sad that he wouldn’t be able to see his family. “I’m thankful that the hotel is trying to accommodate all of us for the inconvenience.” That came from the strange cat monster standing near the dragon with a suitcase; she had big fangs, glasses and was wearing two red heels on her front paws. “As a slime monster, I’m completely outraged.” Stated a feminine looking tall black goo monster with a large eye and red bow tie, it was also sitting outside the elevator. “Come on Pinkie, we need to check in to our rooms. You can ask me your question on the way, also ignore the hole.” Muffet gave a tug on Pinkie’s braided mane and dragged her towards the monster sitting behind the counter past the fountain and to the left from the entrance and also to the left coming out of the fine dining area. The monster that sat behind the counter was a giant hand monster for a head. Unlike Twilight who would eventually forget that Minotaur’s exist, Pinkie certainly wouldn’t. This monster certainly looked handy to have around. “Yes, we know. The elevators to the city are down.” The strange hand headed creature side while vibrating an index finger. “That’s not what we’re here about; we’ve booked a room and are checking in to get the keys for them. Also I’m the new owner of the establishment and I’m going to have a construction crew of spiders come in and fix the place up a bit.” After that Muffet muttered something about the possible chance of getting phones and cable to work around spiders. “Oh right, our new bosses. Hello Miss… Muffet and Pie was it? Your rooms are ready, here are you’re room numbers. We also don’t do keys, but the doors do have locks on the inside.” Taking the knowledge from the hand headed monster, Muffet turned to lead Pinkie towards their rooms. As Pinkie followed Muffet a small thought occurred to her, as she followed they prettily dressed spider monster. “Wait… bosses?” Pinkie looked curiously at Muffet who flinched slightly, but kept a rather toothy looking fanged grin on her face. “Yeah about that, I put a lot of the ownership in not only my name, but your name as well. The hotel is going to be a bit cheaper to live at so more people could enjoy the place, plus ownership equals free mints on the pillows, toiletries and rooms to whoever we want to give them to. I just wish I hadn’t bought out the place before I stole the money that’s now legally mine in the first place.” Muffet looked particularly sheepish even if she wasn’t a sheep; she was in fact still a spider monster. “After my kin upgrade it a bit, it’ll be a nice vacation spot. Well at least until we find a way out of being stuck down here.” “Okay, back to the question I wanted to ask. Are you into bondage?” Pinkie really wanted to know the answer, for various reasons and she actually hoped the answer was a big resounding ‘no’. “No, but a lot of spiders are definitely into it. Why, is that a problem? I can get into bondage if you want me to.” The smile on Muffet’s face was creepy and it dropped as soon as it saw Pinkie’s slightly disgusted face. “No, please don’t!” Pinkie had little love for the kinks like that; she also wished that she didn’t know her sister Maud did. “I’m not into kinky stuff like that, though I know for certain one of my sisters is as well as a friend back home. I did not need to know what my friend Fluttershy does on Sunday, I only know because its information I needed it for my party portfolio. I’m going to have to sweep out the cobwebs when I get back.” “Ah, did you assume because of all the webbing that spiders like me are into bondage? Well, you’d be mostly right as seventy percent of the spider population is into it. I’m one of the few who isn’t, although…” Seeing the flat look on the pony’s face directed at her, Muffet stopped her train of thought and opened the door to Pinkie’s room. She giggled dryly, she wasn’t into bondage, but she’d go there if Pinkie wanted to. Bondage didn’t have to be sexual in nature; spiders mostly did it for fun, sometimes recreational sports and to keep their food still. “Right then, here you go!” Pinkie saw the humongous bed; one that could likely hold Mettaton’s weight. Her pupils grew big with excitement and she immediately lunged onto the bed to start bouncing on it playfully. Muffet bowed to the pony enjoying her bed for the night and bowed out of the room to get into her own comfy bed. “I’ll leave you to it then. Goodnight my dear Mistress Pie.” Muffet smiled gently at Pinkie’s childishness, her goat friend was one lucky lady and she was a bit jealous of her getting the attention of such a vivacious looking little cuddle toy. “I’m not going to be what you want me to be since you’re trying to fit a large round shape into a small square hole. So please stop it with the eternal slave and mistress thing, can we just be friends? Anyway, good night and sleep tight Muffy! Don’t let the mean bed bugs bite!” Pinkie watched as a huge blush broke out on Muffet’s face as she went to exit the room. The spider looked entirely embarrassed at the nickname and the thing Pinkie said about bed bugs only made her blush harder for some reason as she left. After that Pinkie quickly prepared for bed, used the toilet, washed her face and brushed her mane and tail out. Once done she snuggled down on the extremely oversized and soft mattress, closing her eyes she sunk comfortably into its mass. - “She’s always so cute when she’s being childish.” It was hard for Toriel to keep a smile off her face as the surrounding amalgamate monsters cooed softly as the pony went to sleep after snuggling under the covers. Gyftrot just rolled his eyes and shook his head, Kid walked into the room looking around curiously and it made Toriel wonder how he got here so fast when she last saw him in disguise up in the hotel. That little monster was a handful and rather adventurous, his parents must be worried sick about him at this point because he just wouldn’t go home and kept getting into places he probably shouldn’t be. It saddened her in a way as it reminded her of her own children, when they were around that is. “I wish I could be there with her… anyway, anyone going to help me into a bed?” The amalgamate monsters helped Toriel into one of the beds in the laboratory basement; she looked up at the sleeping pink pony on the screen and wanted to be there to cuddle her. Shaking her head as she was tucked in by the amalgamate puddle that could turn into an arm, she sighed and rested her head on a well fluffed pillow. She thought she could hear the muttering of the words ‘sleep well goat mom’ coming from the large dog amalgamate, the fact that it was spoken so clearly said a lot about how all the monsters conjoined into that one body collectively saw her. She sighed in slight aggravation at hearing her infamous moniker even from the amalgamate monsters. Undyne was soon getting some similar treatment, but it was Alphys herself that tucked the fish girl with the cute head fins in. There was a lot of affection flowing between the two that caused Toriel to smile and lean back to close her eyes, she needed to heal quickly if she was to get back on her feet to help Pinkie. - Pinkie stretched her legs out with a yawn and slowly fought her way free of the bed, for some reason moving around under the covers caused party music to play and she didn’t want to stop playing around in the covers because of that. The pony kept playing around under the covers until Muffet came in bearing breakfast for her while wearing her normal everyday attire with her hair up in pigtails again. Madeline had at least ten copies of her favorite set of clothing; they could both eat comfortably on the massively oversized bed. Breakfast was a simple affair. It was mostly vegetables and fruits for Pinkie, usually covered in some assortment of tasty syrup along with some waffles that had banana chunks on them. “Mettaton is waiting for us in the core, which can be entered at the back of this hotel. We’ve got to get by lasers and apparently some mercenary monsters hired to take you down, shouldn’t be too much trouble considering you’ve come this far.” Muffet ate some of her porridge with her two upper arms while her two middle arms unrolled a map. “This is a map of the area behind the hotel and it’s rather simple to get from point A to B, the elevators are still shut down with the exception for the ones you’ve already passed by and he’s behind this particular door leading to a different elevator. It seems to be entirely either proximity based on where Mettaton is or it’s because he no longer has a reason to stop you from using them.” “Seems simple enough, I just have to dance my way through the monsters, move around the lasers where needed and then kick some robot butt in a showdown where I finally catch him in an epic long drawn out dance off next chapter.” With a cheery smile, Pinkie hopped off the bed to a do a little jig on her hooves; she then quickly put on her Temmie Armor and prepared to set off. “I want to make sure he never harms another innocent shovel through making me stress one so badly it breaks apart in my very hooves!” “Well your priorities seem entirely straight. Not exactly simple though, the mercenaries he hired to block our way aren’t going to be easy to deal with and they might actually be dangerous even for me and I’m the toughest spider monster of my people.” Muffet didn’t think things were going to be as easy as Pinkie wanted them to be. “Did you know that most spider monster never reach a human like stage that I’m at? It proves I’m a tough girl, but even I’m a bit wary at the prospects of fighting if a monster uses a fire based attack near me.” A phone rang out and Pinkie quickly moved over to her saddlebags that she had taken off before she crawled into bed to sleep; bouncing on the rather sturdy springy bed had been fun and she wondered what Toriel thought of her exuberance. She knew the pretty goat lady liked cute, cuddly and silly, she naturally was all of those things combined and it warmed her heart when she made someone as nice as Fluttershy is smile. “The color of the pen is definitely ‘blue’, would I lie to you?” Pinkie answered immediately as she put the phone up to her ear. “I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean Pinkie. Anyway, be careful Alphys tells us that Mettaton still has control over the security in the area and she’s currently busy trying to take it down. Also Undyne said to tell the monsters that are supposed to help you hello, I don’t know what she meant but I think she’s sending you help from some of the guards in the area.” It sounded like Toriel didn’t sleep very well without her cuddle toy and it made Pinkie feel bad that she wasn’t there for her goat friend. “Okay Tori, me and Muffet are setting out. I’m thinking I can trust her to keep me safe from danger, now if only I were safe from her trying to get under my tail. Just try to not close yourself off again if something were to happen to me. Mettaton has been really tough for an effeminate guy so far, a lot tougher than Caramel was at any rate.” Pinkie closed her eyes and sighed. “A lot of people care about you Tori and I think you’re becoming a little selfish about me, I won’t lie and say that I don’t feel the same way about you.” “I guess I am, but a queen has got to have her pony cuddles or at least a little love directed her way.” Toriel sounded more amused than sad; the chuckle was music to the pony. “Go get him Pinkie, and befriend the crap out of him while you’re at it! You’re good at that with most people who almost kill or hurt you badly. Good luck, my sweet little pie.” “Don’t worry Tori, I’ve got this. You stay happy you hear me, also get better soon for me and all the monsters that look up to you!” Both the phones cut off and were put away, after having done so Pinkie realized that her hair was now up in a ponytail with Muffet brushing it out. “Is it me or do monsters really like playing with my hair in this story?” It was probably just Pinkie, but it really did seem like a thing. “Right then, where’s this door to the core?” - “You think I would have noticed this yesterday.” In big glowing letters the sign said ‘CORE’ over a door between the health hazard that was Mettaton’s sandwich shop and the hand headed monster receptionist. Pinkie was a little put off by the fact that she hadn’t. The two walked towards the double doors down the little hallway, when they heard a shout. “Hey wait for us, we’re your backup!” Turning around the two saw four armored knights slowly trudge up to them and they hadn’t put on their helmets yet. “I believe we’ve met before, we’re Zuno and Platwoon. Let me introduce you to Threep and Fourlette and we’re the guard escort Captain Undyne called in!” The armored rabbit spoke and then turned his head to stare at his partner Platwoon with affection, before returning his gaze to the pony. “She says it’s important to protect you and we follow our captain’s orders. Even if she were committing treason against the king for some odd reason, like how his intelligence doesn’t quite match up to his physical prowess. He might be an airhead in many things, but King Asgore has got some real muscles on him and he’s kind of a sweetheart. Hey, I scope out every available guy Plat, so don’t look at me like that!” Pinkie just stared at the rabbits face for a moment scrutinizing it a bit; his dragon headed partner was giving him the stink eye, likely because he had been fantasizing about King Asgore for a moment there. “Darn it, why do the cute ones always swing mostly that way?” Throwing her hooves up in the air as she exclaimed this, the two other knights she hadn’t met personally both shifted a bit. “I know right? Still he and Platwoon do make a cute couple.” The mantis looked rather shy about the looks Zuno and Platwoon kept shooting each other; she didn’t look particularly tough for a guard. “Thanks for helping cause Fourlette and I to become best friends again. We wouldn’t have said much to each other if these two didn’t make us acknowledge that we were still wearing each other’s friendship bracelets.” “No problem, friendship is kind of a thing for me and my friends back home.” Rubbing the back of her head, Pinkie gave them all a silly smile before turning back towards the door. “Right then, let’s get a move on. We can’t keep stalling the plot!” “Wait, like before you go…” Bratty and Catty said simultaneously as they ran up to Pinkie, they stopped to look at each other and started laughing. Bratty spoke up. “We want hugs before you leave!” “Yeah, like give us a nice cuddle before you go!” Catty’s tail wagged in anticipation. The two obviously just wanted Pinkie to give them some sugar. “A totally quick squeeze works just as well.” “Of course, I knew I was forgetting to do something! I still have to say goodbye to my two new friends before I set out to capture Mettaton. Remember girls, destroying humanity isn’t going to really help anyone.” Moving up to the two, Pinkie began a group hug. She was swiftly followed by Muffet who added herself to the group hug. Madeline’s lower right arm once again squeezed Pinkie’s butt causing her to jump slightly in the embrace, she glared at the arm that gave her a thumbs up. “Well come on then guys, Undyne says hello by the way and I think she expects you to do your best to protect me.” “Say what you will about Undyne being tough on everyone, or crazy aggressive, or explosively dangerous and maybe possibly a violent psychopath, but we’d still follow her lead.” Seeing the disturbed look she was getting from the pony, the tiger headed Fourlette just smiled showing off her sharp teeth and fangs. “Hey, she lets us work with our friends, she gives us good hours and she trains us well. The pay for keeping the peace is also pretty good too, now if only Undyne would actually stop being the biggest disruption to that peace herself.” With that said the six turned and walked forward through the double doors together and crossed the bridge when they came to it into the area simply called The Core. - The group saw some shadowy figures moving into the core ahead of them as they moved forward, the four knights were now taking caution as they formed a protective square around a brave Pinkie and a nonchalant looking Muffet. They came to a room with an elevator with two paths; the elevator obviously wasn’t going to be working if the theme of them being disrupted by Mettaton continued. The path on the right led to a pit of flames that had Muffet shivering uncontrollably, obviously not the way to go. So they entered the left pathway and Pinkie’s soul immediately popped out as soon as they passed through the doorway onto a long path to the next doorway. They were ambushed by a pair of strange little floating monsters; they had creepy smiles and wore dark clothing that curled in a strange manner. Though they lacked arms, the floating monsters had two spheres’s floating next to their bodies. The clothing they wore could be described as black boots, wizard hats, and body covering coats. A phone rang out and Muffet pulled hers out and quickly stepped off to the side, the four knights dodged out of the way of several orbs that popped into existence and started spewing cross shaped bullets at them. “Hello… yeah, okay then why did you call me? Too busy dancing for her soul at the moment?” Muffet watching as Pinkie danced around the attacks that kept trying to track towards her soul and the attacks were being blown out of the air by the four knights once Pinkie’s soul was out of the way of their own attacks. Zuno and Platwoon worked in concert to launch sword shaped bullets in an accurate manner, while Threep and Fourlette launched wide shifting bullet walls to block anything that the two other knights missed deflecting. “Okay I’ll tell her, hey Pinkie! Some guy named Gyftrot wanted me to tell you those guys are called Madjick’s. He sounds like he’s reading from a book, says they are magically inclined and the easy way to deal with them is to clear your mind and think happy thoughts. Also doing a magic trick might impress them enough to leave us alone. Wait a minute… how did he get my number? I hardly ever use this darn phone considering the poor cell service we spiders usually get.” “Magic tricks? I know plenty of those!” Pinkie stopped literally square dancing and pulled out three cups and a small red ball. “Want to see me perform a trick?” The Madjick’s immediately ceased their cackling and muttering of ancient curse words and spells to form their attacks, their faces stopped smiling creepily. They both softly drifted down to the floor and looked rather intrigued by what Pinkie might have to offer them. The pony lifted the middle cup, placing the ball under the cup she then started sliding the cups around swiftly with her two hooves. Everyone watched the cup that the ball had to be under. Muffet scoffed slightly as this didn’t seem like a magic trick, none of the monsters present could see the trick in it as the pony stopped shuffling the cups around. Madeline had fives eyes and she wasn’t seeing Pinkie do anything out of the ordinary and knew which cup to look under for the ball. “To continue my act of extreme prestidigitation that’s good at parties, now pick a card!” Pinkie pulled out a pack of cards and fanned them out in front of the two monsters that tilted their heads curiously; she couldn’t see what their heads looked like as the hats covered almost everything except for their mouths. One monster bounced into the air floated forward and mystically pulled a card to look at and he even showed it to his friend. “Now remember that card and put it back into the deck anywhere.” The monster floated the card back into the fanned batch of cards, after shuffling the cards Pinkie placed them off to the side of the cups. The pony then pulled out three bound together solid metal rings. She lifted the right cup and places the three bound rings under it, the right cup notably did not have the ball under it. “Now shuffling the cups again and…” Pinkie shuffled the cups around on the floor at an obscenely incredible pace, after stopping she took a few steps back and bowed while holding out a hoof to the two monsters that had ceased their attacks entirely out of curiosity. “Which cup do you think the ball is under? I’ll even let you look under them all after you each make a guess.” The two monsters each picked a cup, choosing the ones Pinkie hadn’t put the rings under. The pony picked up the cup on the left and under it was a solitary metal ring, then she picked up the middle cup and playing card that was standing up inside of another ring that fell over and lifting the last cup there was the ball in the middle of the last remaining ring. “Nope, thanks for playing though and was your card the ace of spades by any chance?” Not only had Pinkie managed to entirely flabbergast the two Madjick’s, she had confused the heck out of the five other monsters who had been watching her the entire time. She had easily impressed all of them. “Bibbidi Bobbidi!” The Madjick on the left exclaimed in shock before nodding to the card, it was clearly mystified. “Boo!” The one on the right simply exclaimed in an unnerved tone, it didn’t know how the ball got in the cup that clearly didn’t have it there before, much less how Pinkie managed to separate the three metal rings at the same time and get their card under another cup, especially without touching the deck again. The two Madjick’s looked to each other with uneasy expressions on their mouths before they smiled at Pinkie and moved out the way and left the area, they enjoyed the magic trick and were going to go tell their friends about it. Pinkie scooped up the objects for her trick and put it back in her saddlebags as her soul slammed home into her body. “Okay, let’s go!” Pinkie continued onwards, while the five monsters stood there looking dumbfounded and still trying to figure out how she did it. “That... there are no words for it.” Muffet mumbled to herself before she followed after Pinkie while four of her arms slapped the guards back to attention as she moved by them. “Come on and snap out of it guys, you’ve got jobs to do and I have a wonderfully talented pony to harass innocently.” - Walking through the doorway they found Pinkie sitting at a blue laser barrier blocking the way forward. “Hey, we can’t exactly continue the story if we’re being blocked by lasers.” Pinkie’s cell phone rang from within her saddlebags and she quickly got it out, it was in answer to the laser wall blocking her path forward. “Don’t worry Pinkie I’ve almost got that small bit of security down.” Alphys’s nerdy voice came through loud and clear, the guards shifted a bit as they heard the royal scientist talk to Pony in a friendly manner. “Look alive you four, no slacking on protecting someone who’s going to help me burn my house down with flaming lemons later!” All four of the guards snapped to attention at the sound of Undyne’s voice. “Make sure she gets through the area relatively safe or else.” The four guards started sweating, they didn’t even need to ask what the ‘or else’ entails as Undyne was a cruel taskmaster as captain of the royal guards. She was rather inventive with her punishments. “Okay got it, but not without some complications. Three lasers will come at you after you hit the switch on the wall which will remove that barrier… they are blue, blue and orange. Remember to move through the orange one.” Alphys had become somewhat braver recently, so Pinkie should ‘trust her on this’. “Right prepare to move forward guys.” Pinkie watched the four knights lined up along with Muffet who nodded and she hit the switch, three lasers came at them and they stood still for the first two and they all took several steps forward through the last one safely. “We made it, thanks Alphys!” “Don’t thank me yet, there are still several measures and mercenaries in your way.” One could almost hear the nerdy lizard blushing over the phone in embarrassment at being praised for being helpful. “We should keep going straight ahead.” At the intersection Muffet mentioned they should just keep going straight on through at, another mercenary monster ran in front of them from the room off to the side. The mercenary looked tall, dark and scary as they pointed the Morningstar at them causing them to halt; this monster stabbed the butt end of the large mace stiffly at the floor with a loud thud. “None shall pass.” The dark night said out loud in a masculine voice, the armored torso looked like it had a face like a birds and considering the biology of monsters it probably was a face given the way the eyes of the armor looked around and the beak opened to reveal another eye in it. Dark blue eyes glared out from under the horned helmet with the crescent moon on it; at least the eyes weren’t the stereotypical evil red, yellow or the seldom used dark purple. “Oh, oh, are we going there?” Pinkie stared expectantly up at the air in anticipation with a broad smile. Sadly it would seem it wasn’t going to go there, especially since the black armored knight pulled Pinkie’s soul and then launched multiple blasts of fire at her and the other monsters from the large ball of fire the glowing Morningstar summoned when it was held aloft. It wasn’t surprising that Muffet curled up into a ball behind Pinkie and whimpered on the floor. Pinkie body went through several small convulsions as her soul got hit several times as she tried to tap dance her way through the numerous blasts of fire launched at it; thankfully the Temmie Armor translated into mystically protecting her soul as well. As such the damage wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Her convulsions quickly came to a halt when two of her bodyguards moved in front of her soul and started taking the full brunt of the attack that continued onwards for several more seconds. “Okay, even with the armor, that really hurts.” Zuno groaned as he fell over, there was a slight amount of steam coming off of it. The attack practically boiled him in his armor; he hadn’t muddied it up again with heat absorbent material after Pinkie previously cleaned it off. “Man down, exceptionally cute man down!” Platwoon shouted as he had taken the attack much better and being a dragon was pretty sturdy again heat based attack, his partner and recently acquired fluffy boyfriend wasn’t so lucky and was possibly suffering from heatstroke. The dragon dragged him back as Threep and Fourlette moved forward to take up protecting Pinkie as the menacing mercenary monster seemed to have tired from using that attack for the moment. The armored aggressor was slowly collecting strength for another powerful attack. “I don’t think I’d take an attack like that very well.” Threep whimpered, being a mantis monster she was susceptible to fire. At least her armor still had the heat absorbent material on it. “Threep… stand your ground, you’re much tougher than you act.” Fourlette didn’t seem to waver in the face of danger. One might even call her foolhardy, but her name was definitely Fourlette Rispur. Foolhardy would be a very odd name to have, though somewhere a pony might have that as a name and their parents must have hated them. “Well you’re not very nice at all…” Pinkie directed her comment at the black knight as she stood up and pulled out her cell phone. The pony hit the quick call button and waited. “Give the stats quick, this monster is really powerful and scary.” “That monster is Knight Knight. Despite the masculine voice, which is most likely a side effect of wearing that helmet, she is definitely a female monster. She has powerful offensive abilities, but she’s easy to put to sleep with music, a gentle song or something akin to a lullaby would easily get her out of the way.” Gyftrot was beginning to wonder how he was even holding his recently acquired phone with his hoof; he shrugged as he must have picked it up from watching Pinkie Pie do it. “She’s easy to knock out without her armor on, but I doubt she’s going to take it off at the moment and all her attacks are quite dangerous and damaging. Thankfully it seems as if they take a lot out of her to do even one attack.” “Hush now, quiet now…” Pinkie started singing softly with an evil grin on her face; the big mean lady knight was cranky and could use a nap. Why not do it with a lullaby most ponies knew? - Turning away from Knight Knight who was sleeping with a blanket and a teddy bear, Pinkie smiled and turned around to see the two female royal guards had fallen asleep. That and with Zuno unconscious, things weren’t looking so good. Platwoon was awake, but appeared conflicted on what to do now as he shifted about in his armor. “Really, they fell asleep too?” Pinkie said in a slightly dull tone as she looked to the air as if expecting it to be the cause of this problem. At least Muffet and Platwoon were still awake and Muffet was poking at the two sleeping female armored guards, while glancing fearfully at Knight Knight every once in a while. “Are you okay Muffy, Platwoon?” “Well we did have a long time of partying before we went to sleep, those two must still be tired.” Platwoon was referring to a sleeping Fourlette and Threep as he slowly picked up Zuno and started cradling his boyfriend’s body in his arms; the dragon knight was quite a strong guy emotionally and physically. “By the way, you have a nice singing voice. My only complaint is that it’s a little bit squeaky.” “Thanks Plat, ponies are really good at singing in general.” Pinkie looked to the two sleeping guards thoughtfully before she turned to a slightly shaken Muffet. “I’m a bit scared, but I can manage Pinkie.” Muffet started clenching her fingers on all six of her hands; they all flared outward to start spraying webbing all over the corner above Knight Knight’s sleeping form. She was making sure that Knight Knight’s body was pinned to the floor. “Well, what do we do from here Mistress Pie? I can see a large number of laser walls ahead of us, who knows what else we’ll run into here.” “I think Plat should take Zuno back to the hotel for some help, we’ll try to wake these two up and then we’ll keep going even if we can’t rouse them. We’ll at least move them away from Knight Knight in that case.” With that Pinkie moved over to start shaking Threep to see if she could get the humanoid mantis monster to wake up. Things just kept getting more and more dangerous for the pony. She really needed all the help she could get.